When it's the executive director who's being evaluated, too often boards fail to look at the central question: what results is the ED getting? In this piece, we urge boards to emphasize the “what,” not just the “how,” when evaluating the ED.

One of the most powerful tools managers have for developing staff is providing direct feedback. If you’re like most managers, though, you still probably should be giving a lot more feedback than you are. In fact, by far the biggest mistake that we see managers make with feedback isn’t giving it poorly, but simply not giving it at all.
You can make it significantly easier to give more feedback by doing these four things.